Day 280: (Non sequitur: I love Bread Day! It finally cooled off enough that I felt like I could turn on the oven.) (Sidebar: that's not really a non sequitur because it doesn't follow anything, i.e., it's not SEQential. Wait, where was I going with this discussion?) Oh! Crocosmia "Lucifer!" (Hang on, I've got everything out of order here. The following sentence would be a "pre-sequitur" if any such word existed, but it doesn't.) It's cooled off! After almost a week of daytime highs in the upper 80s and low 90s, I was finally able to get out on my exercise bike again this morning, and in that amount of time, Crocosmia "Lucifer" had opened up and was fairly glowing in the early morning sun. Yes, I am fully aware that Crocosmia will take over your garden if you give it the opportunity, so I've relocated mine to several spots where it's welcome to spread. I'd love to get it started along the fence line where it would annoy my neighbours, but so far, I haven't been able to get it to "take," which is peculiar, given its aggressive nature. Nor have I had much luck with an orange-flowered variety which my botany partners gave me, possibly due to the fact that where I planted it is rather shady. Even so, Lucifer's bright red "dragons" perk up my yard quite nicely. (Boy, does that bread smell good!)
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